Buddy Adler
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Buddy Adler
Biography
Academy Award-winning producer and former production head for 20th Century Fox, Maurice "Buddy" Adler produced some of Hollywood's most beloved films during his 20-year career. The son of the famed elevator-shoe salesman, Adler started out writing advertisements for his father. He then began penning short magazine stories until 1935 when he began writing short films for MGM. His MGM short Quicker 'n a Wink(1940) won the Oscar for "Best Short Subject." During WW II, he served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Army Pictorial Service. He went on to work as a producer for Columbia in 1947. Six years later he won another Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953). In 1956, he succeeded Darryl Zanuck and became the head of Fox, a position he held until he died during the preproduction work on the ill-fated Cleopatra (1963). ~ Sandra Brennan, RoviFilmography:
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Buddy Adler
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Buddy Adler
| Maurice Adler | |
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| Born | E. Maurice Adler June 22, 1909 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 12, 1960 (aged 51) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1939-59 |
| Spouse | Anita Louise (1940-60) |
E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909 – July 12, 1960) was an American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.
Born in New York City, New York, he married in 1940 actress Anita Louise Fremault (1915–1970) with whom he had two children.
In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture. Adler also produced the 1956 film Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe.
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Awards
He was the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1957. The following year he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
Death
Buddy Adler died of lung cancer, aged 51, in Los Angeles and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His widow died ten years later.
Selected filmography
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
- South Pacific (1958)
- A Hatful of Rain (1957)
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Anastasia (1956)
- Bus Stop (1956)
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
- The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
- House of Bamboo (1955)
- Soldier of Fortune (1955)
- Violent Saturday (1955)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
- Saturday's Hero (1951)
- A Woman of Distinction (1950)
- Tell It to the Judge (1949)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Quicker'n a Wink (1940)
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